[3.25] Ice Dancing Queen - Icestorm/Cyclone/CI - Viable For Everything
" TY for taking a look! I will follow your tips and see how it goes. | |
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When I looked at poe.ninja, some Ice Storm builds use Zealotry.
It provides a little higher DPS than Hatred. Does the guide prefer Hatred because of the mods on Watcher's Eyes? I have the following Watcher's Eyes which can benefit from Zealotry: BTW, those builds seem to have both Hatred and Zealtory in their sockets. That likely requires the corresponding helmet enchantment which I don't have. Do you think it is worth to switch to Zealotry? | |
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Hatred provides 3% more damage, but Zealotry provides more crit chance. It's a fair trade-off. If you already have this Watcher's eye, it might be more interesting to use Zealotry.
The builds running both might be trading Purity of Elements for Zealotry. This means you need a lot more res on gear in a build where suffixes are under a lot of pressure already and you lose ailment immunity. You'd get more damage though. |
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Hello just made some changes and boosted things a ton, how would I know when I can do uber things like elder? I have just under 7k ES and just under 2k int, where would more big es boosts come from? I'm about to encxhant the inc attributes on my chest.
I don't make alot of currency. Thanks! |
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" In fact, i'm running Hatred + Zealotry + Purity of Elements + Clarity and depends on the situation, 4L Herald of ice or skitter bots. Its possible to fit all auras if you really want, and are not that expensive at all!. |
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" You've cut Discipline. That's a lot of ES and ES regen you've removed in favor of damage and doesn't qualify as running "all auras". |
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I took a closer look at their tree.
10% ~ 15% unreserved mana (before clarity) is needed for clarity. 1 The high end build POB: 135% * 0.88 (Enlighten 4) / 1.4 (increased mana reservation efficiency on the tree) = 84.9% 2 Those builds use Zealotry (which replaces Discipline and Discipline gives me about 2K ES): 100% / 1.64 + 50% / 1.94 = 86.7% It doesn't require Enlighten. It instead uses helmet enchantment and takes Charisma (which requires 4 skill points for the second curse or Anathema unique ring) and one extra 8% increased mana reservation efficiency node (2 skill points). 3 If don't take Charisma, then Englighten + helmet enchantment + one extra 8% increased mana reservation efficiency node is needed. 100% * 0.88 / 1.48 + 50% * 0.88 / 1.78 = 84.2% | |
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Not sure six skill points and 2k ES is worth it for Zealotry though. There's plenty of 3-4% per point investments on tree and six points is already 24-27% more damage.
The third option, which requires giving up Discipline + 2 skill points + the flex gem socket, can be an option if you want to trade a lot of tankiness for damage. |
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Those builds often use Anathema (and to my surprise, 25% of Ice Storm builds on poe.ninja use the ring), so they don't need the extra 4 skill points.
The builds which use Anathema also use Arcanist Brand to trigger the curses. Is that to allow 5 instead of 3 curses to be automatically applied to the boss? I also just got one dropped in SSF recently. Maybe time to try that setup. | |
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Decided to try my luck on a second amulet, hoping to get +intelligence or +all attributes. Given the current state of the amulet, how should I proceed? Is the ideal way to block an unwanted craft w/ craft bench, then slam exalts and pray? |
